Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee Fire Department’s 1912 Station 30 has reopened
Milwaukee Hearth Division’s Station 30, 2903 N. Teutonia Ave., is again in service, as quarters for Engine 30 and Truck 12.
In December 2021, the crews needed to filter out of their shared quarters within the two-bay constructing as a result of the primary equipment bay flooring had been failing.
Whereas work to restore the station was in progress, Engine 30 operated out of the vacant Station 5, close by at 1313 W. Reservoir Ave. Truck 12 went to Station 36, 4060 N. twenty seventh St., and to make room there Med 5 went to Station 5.
In accordance the MFD’s annual report, Station 30 had probably the most runs within the metropolis in 2019, with greater than 10,000.
Along with structural repairs, one of many station’s equipment doorways – which had been changed in 1992 to higher replicate the constructing’s authentic doorways – was repaired.
“Concrete under-slab repairs and shoring (had been) put in in keeping with a plan particular to that ground,” stated Chief Aaron Lipski.
The businesses returned to Station 30 on June 21.
Station 30 was the penultimate firehouse designed by mason-turned-fireman-turned-architect Sebastian Model, who retired in 1919 on the age of 75, after 47 years of service to MFD.
Station 31, 2400 S. eighth St., was the ultimate Model design to be constructed, in 1912.
The 42×100-foot Station 30 price $20,992.48 to construct and it opened on March 1, 1912 as quarters for Engine 30 and Truck 14. The lot on Locust and Teutonia, throughout from what’s now Hopkins-Lloyd Faculty (then Hopkins Avenue Faculty), price $3,352.
In 1930, a part of the constructing was altered so as to add a handball courtroom within the former hayloft and 9 years later the brick driveway in entrance of the overhead doorways was changed with concrete. Later, the bay door openings had been enlarged to accommodate bigger tools.
A beautiful crimson brick station with a corbelled cornice, Station 30 initially had a tall hose-drying tower thrusting up from the left entrance nook. In some unspecified time in the future, the tower was lowered to its current place simply above the roofline. It is doable that it was taken down as a part of a collection of renovations undertaken in 1949.
In 1992, the constructing was once more renovated and the handball courtroom eliminated.